Surveillance
サーベイランス / contemporary / Style / Technical Expression
Borrows the cold gaze of monitoring devices to express anonymity, distance and unease.
Timestamps / Fixed cameras / Scan noise / Coordinates
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Critiquing privacy and control · Chill tension for film and music
- Type
- Monospace, small labels
- Composition
- Time and coordinates at the frame's edge; subject far away
- Material
- Black and white, green, low resolution, noise
- Caution
- Protect the dignity and privacy of real people. Don't end at aestheticizing surveillance.
- Further study
- Trevor Paglen / James Bridle